The microwave plasma mystery
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Sometime last year, I got really interested in microwave plasma, which can be made from a lot of things like lit matches, aluminum foil or just some grapes. However, when I went searching for more info about it, I really couldn't find much of anything. There was also no explanation as to why it was yellow every time, regardless of what it was made from. So, I decided to investigate this a little bit and try to get to the bottom of it.
Grape plasma paper: www.pnas.org/c...
Video references:
• Applied Science (Ben): / bkraz333
• Applied science video on making potassium glass: • How to chemically stre...
• RUPhys2012: • Microwave Aluminum Foil
• Steve Mould: • How to film the inside...
• Stupideaproductions: • ☢ Microwave Plasma : A...
• Veritasium (new grape video): • Microwaving Grapes Mak...
• Veritasium (old grape video): • Make Plasma With Grape...
• Walter Mitty: • Match in Microwave Cre...
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): / walker
Man, if there's one thing I've learned during this video (other than the science), it's that Nile really cares about the quality of the video above all else.
He is very meticulous and even bought a phone and some microwaves
YES!!!! This video image quality is awesome!
"However my biggest concern wasn't really safety and I was more worried that if any [microwaves] leaked out, it could mess with the camera sensor."
"I think I also almost broke my elbow, but thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all."
Lol yea
It's one of the most important things when it comes to my videos. I spend a lot of time planning out the shots.
@@NileRed looks like you didnt lock the white balance of the phone camera? Just a little tip for next time :)
What a nice collection of beakers i do hope He won’t have to break them all in the future
Kötü haberlerim var...
😏
Oh no
Videos took seconds before disaster
He literally learns that the plasma is pulling sodium out of the glass, it blows my mind that he didnt think this would damage the beakers
"However, my biggest concern wasn't really safety"
--NileRed, 2019
Austin Powers on having safe sex by having a pistol next to the bed.
"Thankfully... The camera was fine'
Nilered, on how he almost broke his elbow -2019
Remember when cody got the sickest burns due to butter while working with explosives? Same energy.
*russian accent* "Safety is number one priority" Crazy Russian Hacker (2014 or so)
Or the time Colin Furze burned his hand making a cobbled together pulsejet and was back at it almost as soon as the bandages were off
@@julien_mglhs in Soviet Russia safety kills you.
"I think I almost broke my elbow but thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all" is one of my favorite quotes from this channel
He has no fear of injury, as long as he can still do chemistry and make videos he’s fine.
He Is a Man of Focus, Commitment and Sheer Fucking Will
"Safety wasn't really my concern.."
Years of experience in spectrometry has taught me that no matter how little sodium you think your sample has, it will always make itself known.
When you kill 99.99999 percent of sodium:
the 0.000001 percent remaining: SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER
Being reactive and hydrophobic has it's pros and cons
@@SlyFireVR I'd call them positives and negatives.
sodium is the cryptobro of elements
"I think I almost broke my elbow, but thankfully the camera was fine"
My fav part 🤣🤣🤣
Lol
movie studios be like
That’s a scientician for you!
Brief summury of the healthcare system
Nile: Chemistry is dangerous, It's important to take safety precautions.
Also Nile: However, my biggest concern wasn't really safety
"Hey dad, can i borrow your visible light spectrometer?"
"Yeah, its in the junk drawer, next to the refractometer."
“For each run, I didn’t use the same beaker because I didn’t want to damage it by overheating it”
Well that comment didn’t age well.
10 mil views later, we can say that it was an investiment
"... But I'll destroy some microwaves"
it aged like milk
*"I had to destroy all of my beakers because they started exploding because of the plasma experiment I did"*
@@fuery. And that video answers why the plasma is yellow. Sodium was pulled out of the beakers.
drilling through the microwave safety warning label feels symbolic
"Where we're going, we dont need safety warnings..."
reminds me of "is it a good idea to microwave this?"
@@bloodstoneore4630 idk if you're referring to a channel that used to microwave literally anything but if so, good reference!
@@BetaBreaking I was
AHAHA
"I think I also almost broke my elbow, but thankfully, it didn't damage the camera at all"
this man is a gem
"almost" is the operative word. This this Austin Powers irl, living life dangerously.
I love everything about this experiment. Microwaves, plasma, EM waves, light spectra analysis, and chemistry all combined into one. More like this please!
You know you're sciencing right when you find yourself drilling holes through safety warnings
yepppppppp
Wins internets
He’s letting out microwave radiation and potentially heating up his internal organs
@@rocky_adventure_bay7562 he’d notice if that was happening
@@rocky_adventure_bay7562 The hole is too small, he's covering it up with a camera, and he's not standing in front of it
"I almost broke my elbow, but thankfully it didn't damage the camera at all" Lol for the content!
Mike Fish gotta love Nile red
7:28
Carefully, he's a hero
999 likes!
lol he has his priorities
"...but it apparently didn't have any problems at all"
WHAT A LOVELY SET OF BEAKERS NILE, I HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM
Interesting experiments. I recommend to use quartz-based glassware instead of Pyrex glassware to prevent Na plasma generation.
"I didn't want to damage the beaker" Welll got to tell you something.
*throws hammer at beaker*
I was here for this reason
Nate H I would like it but you have exactly 200
Everett James now i made it exactly 220 likes
@@ImSoUnbelievablyCooked I made it 230
"I was worried the beaker would crack" well that didn't age well
@Kats No, as in he had to smash all (I mean ALL) of his beakers because of this.
@@heh2393 AND THE VIDEO OF HIM SMASHING THEM WAS SO GOOD
@@charte5485 STOP SHOUTING BUD, I CAN'T HEAR THE AWESOME SOUND OF GLASS BREAKING!
@@heh2393 YOOOOOOOOOO GLASS BREAKING
all of you shut the fuck up!!!! im trying to sleep
I love the fact that he literally just doesn’t care about his safety nearly as much as he does for his cameras, I love nile
Its pretty cool that you're doing spectral analysis on a microwave, found a surprising result, and then worked hard to resolve it. There is hope for the future of science afterall!
“my first attempt was with forks because i heard it was dangerous to put them in the microwave” nothing can stop this man-
146 likes and no comments. Together we can change this
198 likes and one comment, together we can change this.
237 likes and two comments, together we can change this.
242 likes and three comments, together we can change this.
256 likes and four comments, together we can stop this
I started this thinking there was no way I was sitting through a 30 minute video on microwave plasma. I was wrong. This is fascinating and you clearly spent a lot of effort on it - awesome! May your days be full of interesting discoveries.
I'm glad you liked it!
Actually I didn't noticed that it is 30 min untill I read your comment
@@Theflash9 Same here
You don't miss much running the videos at 1.5 the speed ;) saves you some time
Same here xD
Although as you said this project was a bit different than your usual stuff, This video was, as usual, both entertaining and informative. Thank you for the content that you create, and please don't stop anytime soon.
If we had RUclips and you doing videos like this 40 years ago, I would have my Phd right now. ...Or I would be dead: my mother having arrived home early, found her microwave broken or drilled - and killed me. 🤣
Thanks for yet another phenomenal video!
>I nearly broke my elbow
>thankfully I didn’t damage the phone much
Nile’s priorities are straight
Elbows grow back.
Phones don't.
@@ThePCguy17 ayyy
He said "thankfully *it* didn't damage the *camera* *at all* ", you got 4 words out of this sentence correct, congratulations! (that's 50%)
@@AirNeat science bitches
*This guy sounds like he has an Injury Notebook that says, "Charlie Babbitt squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck".*
2:43
“All this plasma was incredibly hot, and I was worried that running it for a while would crack the beaker, but it apparently didn't have any problem at all”
*“apparently didn't have any problem at all”*
Welp, it turns out that there were problems all along.
RIP beakers
Rest in pieces.
*Yeets beaker across lab*
F
Legendary TAT right lol
NileBlue's video on Beaker Damage: m.ruclips.net/video/tGqVMbAQhBs/видео.html
Dude, you had me almost yelling at my phone about the sodium oxide in the glass. I thought that the beaker was one of the main variables that didn't change between each experiment. I've had a number of instances where I was trying to think "what's wrong with how I'm approaching this?" Only to have a friend come up with a solution in 5 seconds, and making me look brain dead 🤦♂️. This was an excellent video either way.
🤓
Nile, I could feel myself getting depressed. So I took a shower and turned on your video.
Its really helping. Thank you so much brother 👍
"I always heard forks were dangerous to put in the microwave, so I tried those."
Science.
How did it go?
The forks had to much heat capacity.
@@trollfacegaming1111 how did what go?
@@Anklejbiter my first presumption is that you're trolling/(stupid/lazy) which only happens out of severe frustration
“I think I also almost broke my elbow, but thankfully, it didn’t damage the camera at all.”
Ah, finally, someone who understands my priorities.
This was a strangely worded sentence, my first reaction thought was that he had a camera in his elbow.
Elbows be recovering on their own, but I've never seen a camera do it.
I once placed a circular fluorescent bulb in our kitchen microwave oven. As expected it illuminated brighter than the usual level.
I asked my wife to come take a look. She fled the kitchen. It took a week to convince her the oven is back to normal use only.
OK now that's just funny.
One of the things I like most about you is the way you share all your successes as well as failures, no matter how they may make you look. (we're all human and make mistakes). Anyway point is you take us along for the whole ride from start to finish, all speed bumps included. And thank you for that
scientist life priority
"I explode the screen of my phone and almost broke my elbow .... but thankfully the camera is OK"
If the camera is OK... EVERYTHING DON'T MATHER xD
I just paused the video to come see how many people commented on that. 🤣
We've got public healthcare so fixing an elbow is effectively free (excluding pain and inconveniences) while getting a new camera would have cost money.
I also noticed this xD
You can just grow a new elbow in the lab!
"My biggest concern wasnt safety." - NileRed, 2019
Somewhere, somehow, Jamie Heyneman is weeping with joy.
And Cody is laughing.
Mike Row would be proud though. His motto is Safety Second.
@Fergus McGregor **angry russian sounds**
@Fergus McGregor hey did you know that the CrazyRussianHacker not only stole (plagiarism is illegal) a Video but it is an absolutely horrible idea aswell?
If you don't Believe me...
m.ruclips.net/video/nvK8EPl5XLc/видео.html
Science Revolution say sike right now
Thanks for this video! You have saved many of our microwaves from experimenting to see these amazing views, while also helped learning of this phenomenon. Please do more videos like this.
Nilered: Begins to explain basic stuff.
His hands: Enter epileptic parkinson super mode.
"However, my biggest concern wasn't really safety"
alright codyslab
Or Georg Sprave.
I read this as Cody slab
@@heideknight9122 or styropyro
AlteringReality you are on mobile/tablet
Any relation to Etho Slab?
"Worried it would Crack the beaker but didn't cause any problems at all" lol if only he knew
😂🤣🤣
Yes it's true that the plasma is super hot but somewhat because of this it is also not dense at all, so the energy transfer to the glass surface is likely minimal at best.
@@morofry Turns out it did damage some of the beakers but since he didn't know which ones he had used for this experiment, he had to sacrifice them all. There's a pretty fun video of him just smashing all his beakers over on NileBlue.
*to be continued*
ur right
Literally the bane of science life - "sometime last year i started getting really interested in..." haha, i love it
The one rule our parents taught was to never put foil in the microwave and this man has done what they warned us not to
Dangerous chemicals , no problem
Wet floor, almost takes him out
Well, he’s chemist, he knows how to handle dangerous chemicals
He ain’t no carpenter
😂😂😂😂
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect".
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
@@Rurumeto The problem is that this dangerous chemical is also used for the washing itself.
@@Rurumeto water H20
You know this man got some courage when he literally drills a hole right in the middle of a red, shiny, glittery danger warning
Or a death wish
@@lanthan598why not both?
It was worth it for science
for SCIENCE!
@@lanthan598 He definitely doesn't have a death wish. Other than this, he's far too safe with everything else he does. Some things might look reckless, but great thought and research goes into everything, before he actually does the dangerous thing. But with science and chemicals, pretty much everything is dangerous. We've had advancements in medicine and technology, because of people willing to test dangerous shit in search for answers about how things work.
This looks like the ball lighting I saw once. It stayed more circular but moved and glowed just like this. Too cool.
i love his storytelling skills, he keeps us invested and asking questions along with him before explaining the true nature of what we’re viewing!
I like science, dont get me wrong, but for my taste there was too much talking about whether the plasma is from sodium, potassium or whatever.
It would be more fun if he focused on maximizing the size of it and measure the temperature temperature of it and maybe try to max it out as well.
@@2complex43 i totally get that, he was pretty insistent on why the color changed.
My dad always gets mad when I borrow his visible light spectrometer...
Smh, sounds like wimp suace
#relatable
My dad always gets mad when I borrow his _invisible_ spectrometer for light, because he can't even tell that it's gone at first.
my dad has a small growshop, so he actually have a visible light spectrometer.
I will definitely borrow it from him to ruin the microwave.
"Don't try this in your own microwave." Got it, will steal the neighbors'
*borrow
Rooster teeth RT Life and achievement Hunter sent me here
Try thief simulator
*Neighbor:* "We don't *use* egg products; why does this damn microwave *smell like* metallic eggs all the time?"
*appropriate
First time watching NileRed on my desktop, and I have to say, his gaze is waaaaay to intense for this format.
Fun fact: the plasma did in fact break every single one of those beakers. Typical Nigel.
Yes, I remember the first time I borrowed my dad's visible light spectrometer. It was such a proud moment for him and a real rite of passage for me. My grandfather wept after we told him. It was quite the family moment.
Yes! The family that geeks together stays together.
Seriously? He wept? What a load of bullshit.
@@bigsyrup8567 r/whooosh
@@bigsyrup8567 r/whooosh
lemme guess that everyone clapped
Late 2000s RUclips: Microwave plasma
2019 RUclips: Microwave plasma but in HD 60FPS and with a lot more science
veritasium, years ago: grape plasma! very old-youtube style (5min 30sec, 2,334,003 views over its six years)
veritasium, months ago: hey someone was inspired and did research about grape plasma! here's the answer. (8min 16sec, 7,870,771 views over six months)
nilered, this week: have a goddamn half hour high production value experiment log presentation of me actually doing research on microwave plasma (27min 51sec, 471,345 views in the first week)
@@laurenpinschannels content decides i guess?
RUclips in 2020: PLASMA ROCKET LAUNCHERS!!!
@@brandanimations3790 plasma pumped yag laser rod cuts ring around microwave
12:09 This completely contradicts the hypothesis of the Veritasium video as well as the PNAS paper it's based on. Great job!
You know this could be a great chemistry class lesson
Lol teaching that chemistry glass can react with somethings and you should always account for the glass if you get stuck with everything else lol
"...and I DIED when I saw that there was still this massive sodium spike."
So relatable.
111 likes lol
The thing that was most relatable for me was grasping at straws and googling "air plasma yellow".
"And I died"
NileRed - 2019
Thomas Youssef I was gonna comment this lmaoo
He's got a clone made from his own shit
SHIET
RIP in Peace Riley Ned
before 2019 - 2019
Died of spikey sodium
Great investigation. So it was simply the sodium from the glass. Very cool. From a chemistry point of view the glass is always inert, but Ben is more of a physics guy. Thanks very much Nile.
I have now learned that keeping my smartphone safe is more important than keeping my elbow safe. Thanks for the advice Nile!
A company called Robson scientific (first on Google) does quartz "glassware", contains very little of anything other than SiO2 something like 99.995% and they take orders from individuals !
That could definitely handle the heat, pricey though
(Edit: there are cheaper sources: e.g. Amazon which seems to source off celscientific)
seconding quartz apparatus, extremely high temperature tolerance too
Whoa, great find! We've got something here
I guess 4-figure prices per unit?
@@terriplays1726 for a 500ml flask from the high purity hand crafted place I think it was $134, with the cheaper stuff from Amazon etc being about half that?
A lot, but you typically only need 1 and just put it inside another thing
He shows at the end that he did try quartz
I like how his dad has a visible light spectrometer kicking around. Good job!
Like it was simply normal for dad to have a Visible Light Spectrometer Lol. It’s funny how he casually said that.
That thing is awesome!
Science runs in the family
"I was worried that running it for a while would crack the beaker, but apparently it didn't have a problem at all."
that's called foreshadowing.
This is really interesting. I think one of the reasons is your approach from a curious perspective. It's fascinating watching someone go through the mental processes, and asking the pertinent questions, and also, not being afraid to acknowledge one's own mistakes, missteps, or misinterpretations. I get the same kind of enjoyments here as I do watching mustie1. Thanks, and subbed.
NileRed:
"almost broke my elbow .... but thankfully the camera was ok".
A smart person would have stopped then. What these tubers do for ratings, LUL.
Priorities
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices for science
@@ImaginationToForm But then we wouldn't have gotten this video.
"I just bought a new phone for a better shot"
I wish I could say that, I really do
The Great Wolf It's his job, so thats like a business purchase.
Well it was also because his old phone was cutting his fingers. I think most people would have to find another option at that point, even if it might not be an upgraded phone.
Then just say it. It doesn't cost any money to say "I just bought a new phone for a better shot." Sorry, I'll be quiet now. Lol
Except the new phone has the same camera as the old one
I can say i bought one because i broke the previous one.
Cool but I feel like I'm at least a little more blind now
One thing this video showed me is how important collaboration is. Sometimes you just can't see what others can
I love how he narrated that little part of him slipping as if it was a narration for a quantum physics documentary
“My first attempt was with forks, because I was always told it was really dangerous to put them in the microwaves”
“It didn’t end up working very well”
thank you for this well-researched video. I had also been interested in this topic but gave up the research (and trial) attempts due to not knowing if the info i found was legit. You certainly know your chemistry, so I believe you know your microwave plasma. Keep up the good work.
“I thought running it for a while would crack the beaker, but it didn’t really have any problems at all.” famous last words.
Convenient, completely inert, and made of SODIUM SILICATES Nile.
I was mentally screaming this every time he failed to determine the source of the yellow color, and was really hoping he wouldn't end the experiment without realizing this. I'm glad he figured it out in the end though and confirmed my suspicions.
Yeah, I know nothing about the chemical compositions of things, but when he said it had to be something that was the same every time, I was like, "Oh, the beaker?" And it took ages for him to figure it out after that. But we all miss dumb things sometimes...
@@safaiaryu12 Borosilicate glass is actually a very large chunk Sodium by weight. The two main ingredients in making it are Sand and Boron(AKA sodium borate). A lot of people don't realize this. Somebody else had commented something about how they didn't think there would be any sodium in the glass, but they deleted it apparently. Must have googled what borosilicate glass was made of lol.
@@SnowblindOtter sand is quartz tho
And quartz is made of silicon dioxide
Edit : quartz is made of silicon and oxygen atoms***
@@moki2093 Yes, and the main component of Borosilicate glass is Borax. Borax is made of Sodium and Boron atoms.
1:51 The seriousness in his face while he says "I also thought that it was just a decent excuse to just have fun and play around with plasma"
Haha, brilliant isn’t it? 🤣🤣
This is one of the prettiest videos I've ever seen. I love all the plasma colors!
21:09 why is that melting plastic so funny
Your videos are really entertaining and relaxing to watch. good work, keep it up!
Yeah his voice is so rellasing..
Relaxing *
Does anyone else find their own hobbies a bit "blah" after watching these videos? ;)
@@treborironwolfe978 My only real hobby is shooting things.
@@Aconitum_napellus wtf ?lol 🤣🤣
I made a simple "supercharging" method for an old microwave once.. Simply distancing the tempsensor on the magnetron alittle makes the time needed to heat things decrease alot. Can also make the microwave set itself on fire. I have a new microwave now.
Pro unalive tip right here.
I hear that "dumb ways to die" sound in the distance😅
Almost an Icarus moment lol
Insane there’s a part called a magnetron in a microwave
@@marcospelaez5970more crazy is that every single microwave brand is made by one company
oh boy, what lovely beakers. They seem very good quality and suck must be expensive to withstand so many chemical experiments
I did some plasma with microwaveoven myself to. I once thought the occasional failures were caused by lacking of oxygen.but the explanation and solution of it in this video is so so so brilliant!
However, it is not so hard to think of that glass and wood contain lot amount of sodium.
I think the real highlight of this video was being able to watch an egg actually sweat at 26:41 - like Jesus Nile what did you tell it that made it so nervous
If you scream at them long enough then they'll sweat.
If you scream at them too loudly they’ll explode, an important balance to keep
condensation?
"..and I died when I saw that there was still this massive sodium spike. Now at this point, I was dead"
i laughed so hard when he said he died so dramatically
The bit about dead zones and hot spots make hot pockets all the more mysterious.
The video with the square box and the vibrating camera feels like it could be out of a sci-fi movie where something goes wrong in an experiment and the world starts shaking
"I stopped the beaker from rotating to get a better shot"
"it turns out rotation was nessacary, which I expected to be the case"
Sure Nilered. Sure you did.
"However, my biggest concern wasn't safety" is the most badass line I've heard on a science channel
I believe you would enjoy Cody's Lab in that case, where safety is a foreign term
@@KirbzYyY long time sub of his, he almost died in his last video lol
@@martinloh5553 the coyotes?
@@frankzaffuto3670 yup i guess. he really needs a stun buton or some real strong pepper spray. bear spray maybe
wouldnt have helped him, he left everything he was carrying inside his car which was the problem.
absolutely love your videos! you always pose very interesting questions and your dedication to getting the answers to your own questions is inspiring, also found out that timber is treated with sodium silicate as a preservative, the match sticks themselves more than likely were treated with it also
I know he said not to try this at home but now I really want to make some microwave plasma
I was just about to go sleep, but then NileRed uploaded another banger.
Its 3 in the afternoon. Are you in kindergarten?
You live near asia right?
@@blue.1 It's 6pm. Are you three timezones away?
@@blue.1 it's midnight here in belgium
@@bakedbeansinacan7335 even so
Your dad just had a visible light spectrometer laying around? Your dad's cooler than my dad 😂
@@RyanGaryLeTomo Ouch! Sorry.
@@RyanGaryLeTomo You don't need a cool dad, you're so cool yourself! You're awesome.
@@RyanGaryLeTomo F
@@RyanGaryLeTomo F
@@RyanGaryLeTomo OOF.....
I know many people aged 25 and under with that experience. There's still plenty of people you can look up to in life & it's something you can learn from as well, helping make you a much better person than your dad seemed to have been...
Sucks when a parent just ups and leaves or passes away.
Cool video, it actually answered two questions I’ve always had but never had answers for. One regard the spectra of light glow from a burnt match being heated. Another light and sound waves having a correlation. Thanks dude.
Chemistry's vocabulary always sounds so nerdy and sci-fi on paper, but when you look at the actual construction of the words, it's extremely logical
finally, the triumphant return of "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?"
Nobody likes roasted nuts
Ventilation is key
Safety is our first concern.
"And it also made a characteristic sound" MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Omg I'm dying with this thing ahahahahahahahha
When researchers analyse liquid samples with mass spectrometry, Na adducts are regularly seen in data due to sample being held in glass sample vial. Lol I was happily guessing Glass as Na source and so happy when tested here. Excellent science videos, I will be suggesting these to my students at the University of Strathclyde :)
Something about seeing the plasma beat near the end was really cool to me
Older microwave ovens didn't use the turntable. They had a spinning reflector near the magnetron antenna to scatter the microwaves around.
Most microwaves now use a combination of both a turntable and a spinning reflector for even heating.
@Dave Micolichek stirrer couldn't be more vague, tho, spinning reflector makes a lot more sense. After all, it's not physically stirring anything at all besides air, it's merely giving waves of electromagnetism an option to be re-directed at differing angles.
@Dave Micolichek lol how creative of those egineers, lemme stir these radio waves, gotta love simplicity 😂 and dont listen to these salty arrogant ignoramuses, your comment was perfectly respectful and respectable, respectfully ofc. Do your think and shine on brite one.
That's lit
When he asked himself which was the common thing between all the runs I immediately thought of the glass, and then said "air" and I felt so stupid. But after all I was right and it felt really rewarding. Loved the video thought.
@NeilRed: the weired "electric" sound comes as the magnetron itself is pumped by the flank occuring every half-wave from your 60 Herz sinusoidal mains. The effect can be also heared in the transformer hum. The same effect appears everytime when you are making electrical arcs directly driven by a transformer from the mains. In many electric-arc videos on youtube the arc is driven by A high frequency flyback converter what you then clearly can hear in the weird high frequency PWM sound what also can be heared directly in the characteristic coil whine of switched mode power supplies.
So what I've learned from the grape experiment is that we can theoretically build a plasma gun that is powered by raisins.
Nile: And it makes a characteristic sound
Also Nile: *doesn't show the sound*
you can't show sound
3:21 listen carefully he did
@@shadow_neutrino p0p0o
So could you make a plasma gun out of sodium and potassium pellets/bullets with a small microwave integrated?
It is a low droning noise
"For each run I used a different beaker because I didn't want to damage it by overheating it"
Well so much for that *smash*
weirdly the one thing this video taught me the most strongly was that UFO sightings are probably mostly freak plasma storms
Man, I miss these old long videos so much, the shorts are cool as well but not even close to a 30min video full of science and explanation to detail